AI Search Inspector by Franz Enzenhofer

Inspect ChatGPT outbound search queries and their returned results in a compact side panel.

🔍 AI Search Inspector by Franz Enzenhofer Unlock the hidden world of AI search! See exactly what ChatGPT searches for when answering your questions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT IT DOES AI Search Inspector is a powerful Chrome extension that reveals ChatGPT's search behavior in real-time. Every time ChatGPT performs a web search to answer your questions, this extension captures and displays: ✓ Search queries sent by ChatGPT ✓ Search results returned from the web ✓ Complete API response data ✓ Timestamps and event tracking ✓ Raw JSON for technical analysis Perfect for researchers, SEO professionals, developers, and anyone curious about how AI assistants gather information from the web. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES 🔴 REAL-TIME MONITORING Watch live as ChatGPT searches the web. See each query the moment it's sent and track results as they arrive. 📊 STRUCTURED DISPLAY All search data is organized in a clean, hierarchical format. Navigate easily between different events and queries. 📑 TABLE OF CONTENTS Quick-jump navigation to specific events, queries, and results. No scrolling through endless data. 📋 COPY FUNCTIONALITY Copy individual results or export all data with a single click. Visual feedback confirms successful copies. 🔧 RAW JSON VIEW For developers and power users: inspect the complete, unmodified JSON responses from ChatGPT's search API. 🎨 CLEAN INTERFACE Compact side panel design that doesn't interfere with your ChatGPT workflow. Professional, modern UI with proper word-wrap and overflow protection. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE 1. Install the extension 2. Navigate to ChatGPT (chat.openai.com or chatgpt.com) 3. Click the extension icon to open the side panel 4. Ask ChatGPT questions that require web searches 5. Watch as search queries and results appear automatically in the panel That's it! The extension works completely automatically once activated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 USE CASES 🔬 RESEARCHERS Understand what sources ChatGPT considers when answering research questions. Verify information sources and discover new research leads. 📈 SEO PROFESSIONALS See which search results AI assistants prioritize. Gain insights into AI-driven search behavior and optimize content accordingly. 👨‍💻 DEVELOPERS Debug and analyze ChatGPT's search API behavior. Study the structure of search requests and responses for development purposes. 🎓 EDUCATORS Teach students about AI information gathering. Show real-world examples of how AI systems research and verify information. 🔍 CURIOUS MINDS Satisfy your curiosity about how ChatGPT works behind the scenes. See the "thinking process" of AI search in action. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY ✓ All data stored locally in your browser ✓ No external servers or third-party data collection ✓ No user tracking or analytics ✓ Open-source architecture for transparency ✓ Only monitors ChatGPT tabs (chat.openai.com, chatgpt.com) Your conversations and data remain completely private. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ TECHNICAL DETAILS SUPPORTED SITES • chat.openai.com • chatgpt.com • All OpenAI domains REQUIRED PERMISSIONS • storage: Save captured search data locally • tabs: Access tab information for ChatGPT • scripting: Monitor network activity • webRequest: Capture search queries • sidePanel: Display the inspector interface • debugger: Attach to ChatGPT tabs for deep monitoring DATA RETENTION All captured data is stored in local browser storage and can be cleared at any time through Chrome's extension settings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨‍💼 ABOUT THE DEVELOPER Created by Franz Enzenhofer, an experienced SEO consultant and developer specializing in search technology and AI systems. This extension is built to provide transparency into AI-powered search behavior. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📞 SUPPORT Need help or have questions? • Visit our GitHub repository for documentation • Report issues through the support page • Check the FAQ for common questions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ VERSION HISTORY v0.1.0 (Current) • Initial release • Real-time search query monitoring • Structured result display • Table of contents navigation • Copy functionality with visual feedback • Raw JSON inspection view • Word-wrap protection and proper formatting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 NOTE This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI. "ChatGPT" is a trademark of OpenAI. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start exploring AI search behavior today! Install AI Search Inspector and see what ChatGPT really searches for.